Sunday, January 24, 2010

Readers of this blog will know that I am mildly obsessed with apple cakes. I had HUGE cravings for them while pregnant and I am still searching for the right taste. I made up this recipe in an attempt to get what I am looking for. Did I succeed? YES! It’s the nearest in taste to my mother’s cake that I’ve yet had. It is not a very sweet cake (I am on a health kick so I put in v little sugar and v little fat) but it is really delicious. It's more of a loaf, really. And it's so healthy! My mother famously used to ‘forget’ to put sugar in apple tarts. She will love this cake/loaf which I will have to bake for her asap.

250 g of wholemeal self raising flour

2 med/large cooking apples

1 tsp mixed spice

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp NoEgg mixed with 2tblsps water (or 1 beaten egg for non vegans)

200 mls of soya milk

50 g of light brown sugar

1 tblsp vegetable oil

30 g flaked almonds

Preheat the oven to 160˚C

Grease a 2lb loaf tin (or line with paper liner)

Peel the cooking apples and chop into small pieces

Sprinkle the cinnamon on the apples

Mix flour, sugar and spice

Make the NoEgg mix as per pack

In a jug, mix together the soya milk, oil and NoEgg mixture

Make a well in the flour and beat in the milky mixture

Fold in the chopped apples

Pour the mixture into the loaf tin. Gently shake to flatten the top

Sprinkle with the flaked almonds

Bake for an hour in the top of the oven. Move down a shelf if top browning too quickly.